It’s heartbreaking to me seeing all the posts and listening to people talk about how they’d die for their faith in Christ, yet…. they choose sin over Jesus every day in the way they talk, treat people, what they watch on tv, read in books, post on Facebook, the jokes they enjoy, and the way they spend their time (“I’m too busy to read my Bible or pray or spread the Gospel… that Candy Crush Saga is so time consuming ya know!”).

As John McArthur wrote – “True repentance and faith in Christ denies the usual depraved longings of the human will.”
Or go straight to our Savior, Jesus Christ Himself, and see what He has to say…

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.” Jesus in Matthew 10:34-39 NASB

Folks… He is pretty clear on what He expects of us. Don’t allow yourself to be fooled by false teachers and there are plenty of them out there! Nothing is more important. Nothing.

I share this because there was a time when I thought (was just positive) that I was in the “good” with Jesus, but I wasn’t taking up a stick for Him, never mind a cross. I was living in sin, doing what I pleased while saying I loved Him. I was lying to myself and Satan was loving it. It’s Satan’s goal to keep us deceived. Some of Satan’s greatest weapons are preachers and people that sit in churches each week thinking they’re okay and leaving the impression with others that they’re okay. The Bible clearly states to KNOW FOR YOURSELF. Once you’ve heard the gospel message, you will be held accountable.

Please. Get this right.

We never know what tomorrow will bring, or if we’ll get another chance. Don’t break His heart by not taking His gift and living for Him.

Numbers. I’ve never been particularly good with them. Even as a child in school, dealing with numbers wasn’t a favored task. However, using numbers is a huge part of every person’s life. They’re a source for many various types of information. Some of which is good, some bad, often indifferent. Statistics are used every single day to give people all over the world all sorts of information about all sorts of issues.

Numbers can be great when they tell us our favorite sports team just won a game or give us some other information that’s considered positive in our minds. However, they can also make us feel bad, such as when we’re dieting and the numbers we see on the scale aren’t what we wish they were. They can also fool us and deceive us. They can even hurt people in need.

How can numbers hurt people in need? Quite simply, by making us feel that our efforts are worthless, and by making us feel that one person surely can’t be of that much help when the number of people in need is so very great.

Studies have shown that people will care, and therefore do, more for the plight of one child, than they will if the need is for a large group of people. In our minds we can grasp the needs of a single family much easier than the needs of an entire country. It seems that the larger the number in need is, the more numb our minds and hearts get. It’s easier to depersonalize larger groups. We can more easily justify doing nothing when we feel that the need is so great we can’t personally fix it. We often say that there is strength in numbers, but when it comes to poverty, larger numbers don’t give us strength at all and instead actually give only a sense of hopelessness. .

However, in the Bible, God plainly tells us that even only one can accomplish much. One can indeed save many. One has saved all who care to take His offer of salvation as their own.

When the disciples brought it to Jesus’ attention that there were large numbers of people that were hungry and in need of food, Jesus told them simply, “You feed them.” With faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, one can truly make a difference in the lives of many. With Him helping us, we are capable of doing so much more than we could ever imagine.

You are one and yes you can make a difference. All you have to do is choose to follow Him.